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• Manage the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Air Quality Program to ensure all current air quality tasks and projects are completed. Responsible for the daily oversight and management of the regulatory and air quality planning.

Ignacio, Colorado

• Manage the air permitting and air quality planning sections of the Air Quality Program (AQP) of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. Provide direction and program development to support air quality planning and permitting.
• Serve as the Lead technical expert in developing emission inventories and researching sources of air emissions within the Southern Ute Indian Reservation (Reservation) and provide technical comments on complex.

• Lead permit writer responsible for researching, developing, and issuing Title V operating permits for air pollution sources on the Reservation. Reviewed technical, complex permit applications, coordinated with source.
• Frequently sponsored and lead meetings with source operators and stakeholder groups to receive feedback on air programs and projects. Lead technical contact for the Tribe’s Reservation Air Code, responsible for.
• Developed a strong knowledge of current Clean Air Act, state, and tribal air regulations. Provided technical comments on the EPA’s proposed Federal Tribal Minor New Source Program. Provided comments on NEPA documents.

Ignacio, Colorado

• Reviewed Title V operating permit applications for completeness, requested additional permit application information when deficient, verified emissions calculations, and made applicability determinations for Clean Air.

• Assisted the Superintendent of Lemon Dam with routine inspection, maintenance, and operation of the dam.
• Coordinated with the United States Geological Survey on the installation and maintenance of landslide monitoring equipment on the Florida River Landslide Complex and provided on-site evaluation of landslide activity in.

Durango, Colorado

• Led and directed a field crew performing forest fire restoration and erosion mitigation within the Missionary Ridge burn area. Job entailed tree planting, native grass re-seeding, and construction of erosion barriers.

Durango, Colorado

• Research Technician, 2009-2010. Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado(Part Time)
• Developed a research plan and secured project funding through a private sector sponsor and grants. Research goal was the characterization of microbial carbonate buildups of the Paradox Basin U.S.A., in order to aid the.
• Research included the classification of facies types on a micro and macro scale, determining diagenetic histories, permeability and porosity estimations, and controls on the geometry and scale of carbonate buildups in.
• Research findings were documented in written thesis reports and with verbal presentations to the Fort Lewis College Department of Science, the Four Corners Geologic Society, and at the 59th Annual American Association.